All Seasons Press is suing former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, claiming that the indicted politician included false statements in his memoir, the Hill reports.
Meadow’s book, The Chief’s Chief, which All Seasons published in 2021, is an account of his 10-month stint as former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a Trump idolator’s dream book. Everyone else should stay far away.”
Last month, ABC News reported that Meadows met with federal investigators and told them that he does not believe that Trump actually won the 2020 presidential election. That would contradict his book, in which he wrote that the election was “stolen” and there was “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.”
All Seasons filed suit against Meadows in Sarasota County, Florida, the Hill reports, claiming that he had promised his book would be “true and based on reasonable research for accuracy.” The publisher is seeking nearly $3 million in damages.
Meadows, the publisher said, “breached those warranties causing ASP to suffer significant monetary and reputational damage when the media widely reported…that he warned President Trump against claiming that election fraud corrupted the electoral votes cast in the 2020 Presidential Election and that neither he nor former President Trump actually believed such claims.”
Meadows is already facing legal trouble in Georgia, where he is one of 15 remaining co-defendants—along with Trump—in a criminal trial over alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. Four other people charged in that prosecution have pleaded guilty.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
